It's the final day of the Winter Meetings, which means the annual Rule V draft will be getting underway shortly. Most of us are familiar with the rough outlines of the unique event, but if you're not, here's a quick primer. Players who have sufficient minor league experience to qualify and are not on a team's 40 man roster can be selected by another team for a mere $50,000 price. The kicker is that you then have to keep that player in the big leagues for an entire season (either on the active roster or the big league disabled list), or you must offer the player back to his original team. There are interesting stories on both ends of the spectrum here, the Twins got Johan Santana in the Rule V draft while the Padres actually selected Ivan Nova and returned him to the Yankees back in 2008, but for the most part nothing particularly interesting comes of most guys who get selected. The Yankees have a full 40 man roster right now, which means they can't even make a selection and I haven't bothered to take too much time "scouting" the pool of available players, but here's MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo's preview if you'd like to take a look: